Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell For Hire, Richard Desmond And The Guardian Repeats
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DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell ponders PR move
As Kate and Gerry McCann return from their first family holiday since their daughter Madeleine disappeared 14 months ago, their spokesman Clarence Mitchell is in talks to join a PR agency where he plans to help other parents who have lost children to deal with the media.
Such is the news of the McCann case that the internet traffic-hungry Telegraph is looking at Clarence Mitchell’s career options. An interviwer might ask him what good has come of all the PR and media handling, and point out that not every missing child is the the blonde, photgenic progency of middle-class doctors and thus not deemed to be as newsworthy.
Says Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman:
“I’m happy to help anyone in the eye of a media storm, but I need to put myself on a firm financial footing. I should stress, however, that there’s absolutely no question of me abandoning Kate and Gerry McCann.”
Working for the McCanns is a job, and it pays. But when will it end?
THE GUARDIAN: “Fakery fallout hits TV sector”
Deception rows caused several top television figures to slide down the top 100. It’s the MediaGuardian 100, an arbitrary league table of TV shows and staff.
The newspaper sector accounts for three of the top 10 fallers - two editors and a proprietor. Richard Desmond is the second biggest faller, down 20 places to 55, after his newspapers had to make unprecedented front-page apologies and pay £550,000 in damages to the family of Madeleine McCann.
And the Guardian loves to write about Desmond:
55. Richard Desmond
In March, Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers titles ran unprecedented apologies and paid £550,000 in damages over stories they had run about the family of Madeleine McCann….
It was another blow to the credibility of the papers, credibility that has suffered ever since Desmond bought them in 2000…
Under-resourced and undermined by the McCann apology, Desmond’s newspaper group also saw the first 24-hour national newspaper strike for 18 years in a dispute about pay and outsourcing.
Desmond is Fleet Street’s least-loved proprietor, but as the Observer’s Peter Preston memorably put it: “No one likes him, though (in common with Millwall FC) he doesn’t seem to care.”
No.78 is Peter Wright, editor of the Mail on Sunday.
If Wright is occasionally a controversial figure, then he gained extra credibility this year when he joined the Press Complaints Commission after the Daily Express editor, Peter Hill, stepped down in the wake of Express Newspapers’ £550,000 damages payout to the family of Madeleine McCann.
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Richard Desmond, the owner of Express Newspapers, has also had a mixed year, paying out £550,000 in damages to Gerry and Kate McCann for a string of inaccurate articles about their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance, and taking the unprecedented step of publishing front-page apologies in all four Express and Star national titles.
Is the Guardian obsessed with Richard Desmond?
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July 15th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Did anything happen yesterday at noon?
July 15th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Morning Jo
Any news from portugal?
July 15th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Good Morning
Yawnnnnnn
July 15th, 2008 at 7:21 am
You nearly got it Chatta, but not quite, give it a little thought, do you notice a parallel.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Gandolf
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
I know you love me really.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Ciara
That’s so sad. I feel guilty I was dismissive about it the last time you mentioned it to me but I was annoyed about something else. I hope it gets better. x
July 15th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Ciara! Definitely go on youtube tonight. EFT is only a tapping technique but it truly is all the rage and you will find people adore it. X
July 15th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Ciara hun! Go to youtube and type in EFT in 5 minutes. Super bloke. Don’t think it’s nonsense - it really works.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:48 am
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Ciara Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 1:12 am
I wasn’t on for a week or more Cheryl as my son was in hospital. He has received treatment and is not too good with the side effects. The last scan revealed more abnormalities at the front cortex of the brain as well as the growth in the middle. His memory is the main problem as he gets confused and can’t remember basic things like if he’s eaten or not. It is hard to cope with and accept at times.
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Oh, Ciara, I am so so sorry! Do you have other family to help you out and/or just be there for you and him? I’m five hours behind you and I’d be happy to sit with you so to speak and you just talk, cry, rant, rave, or whatever if it would help you any inside to get your feelings out, you must be bottling up.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:36 am
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coco
Thanks Coco I will look into that tomorrow. I will try anything to lift me even temporarily from this situation. It is wearing me down and it is hard. I am trying to be positive and keep going for the sake of my other two children but I am worn out and tired. It is a horrible illness and watching every symptom gradually develop destroys me. He is only 17. Thanks for your concern…x
July 15th, 2008 at 1:35 am
ciara, sorry to hear that, it must be difficult
July 15th, 2008 at 1:33 am
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JuneJohnson Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
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June, I gather your husband got hurt. Will he be bedridden or carefully up and around? You mentioned ‘phiso’ is that physical therapy? Do they come to your home or will you have to drive him for it? Oh well, June, what else do you really do to keep you busy? You only have to walk the dogs, you board dogs, you only have to feed them, clean up after them, make sure they get exercise, be a mod on here, clean the house, fix breakfast, lunch and dinner, take care of your husband now … oh hell just order 3 cases of Merlot and you should get through it like a charm!
July 15th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Maravilha ……. Darzy renounced all on his death-bed and spoke to God - if that helps.
Also, he never found the missing link!
However Anorak had not been invented! lol.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Every fucking time I come on here I rant to myself. X
July 15th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Ciara! ….. John Grinder and Richard Bandler. Anything by them. They do fab the most uplifting sessions. I have used their techniques many times. X
July 15th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Ciara …… Just read the note about your son. Please try and get hold of an NLP book by Grindler and Bandler(/) or any NLP book because it really can help you. I think it’s called ‘Frogs into Princes’ if you go on Amazon. If I remember the names properly I will re-type. Somebody may have nocked a copy and put on the internet.
Try any NLP books to help yourself and him. XXXX
July 15th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Speaking about ghosts, I’m curious.
I was brought up with the idea they don’t exist.
It is difficult for me to combine Darwin’s theory and the existence of dead people coming back from death.
Althoug I know a very reliable person who have seen ghosts, a person who was brought up without religion.
It is absolutely not somebody who makes up stories, never did.
This intrigues me.
I would like to hear more about this, from people on this forum.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:12 am
I wasn’t on for a week or more Cheryl as my son was in hospital. He has received treatment and is not too good with the side effects. The last scan revealed more abnormalities at the front cortex of the brain as well as the growth in the middle. His memory is the main problem as he gets confused and can’t remember basic things like if he’s eaten or not. It is hard to cope with and accept at times.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:04 am
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Ciara Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 12:57 am
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Cheryl
Hi Cheryl.
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Ciara, how are you doing? Long time no see on here or maybe I’ve just missed you? All is calm and well with you, I trust? How is your son?
July 15th, 2008 at 1:02 am
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Ann Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
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Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Ann
Can spirits who are ‘at peace’ come back?
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Further to this, I have just e-mailed Christine to see what she says and will let you know.
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Ann, have you heard or believe the spirits come back when someone is dying and helps them pass over? A person is at the end and someone who has died before them, say a mother, father, brother, spouse,etc. is standing there waiting for them and they see them waiting ?
July 15th, 2008 at 12:57 am
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Cheryl
Hi Cheryl.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:50 am
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jo Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Gils….NO I dont sleep with him,thank god for that! enough to have to bear the sight of his err…you knô rather hairy chest.Terrible.Cant overcome it.Almost worse than clarrie.At least,this hairy chest is tanned not pinkish around corners agrrhh
Otherwise,he is a “nice” bloke really…as long as I shut up,we”re “friends”
Anyhow,he keeps his shirt at all times WITH a bloody tie in the freaking heat
I will gently make him understand he could do without the tie but swiftly.He must think thats HIS idea NOT mine.Freaking childish as well
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Good grief, Jo, it looks mighty incriminating to me - hairy chest, …tanned not pinkish….BUT yet he wears a shirt and tie? Could you explain to me how you can see his hairy tanned not pinkish chest?
Don’t worry, Jo, over here in divorce court one can plead the 5th! But that is right you aren’t in this country. What about in your country?
July 15th, 2008 at 12:32 am
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Julie Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Cheryl, what type of dogs do you have?
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Just got on line, Julie, again so not ignoring your query. Pet category I have:
75 lb. standard poodle; 2 -3lb. chihuahas; 1 lynx; 1 african gray; 1 quaker parrot; dizzy the ferret; and by Friday the doberman pinscher puppy I bought should be delivered to me (it is really a 20th birthday present for my son.)
July 15th, 2008 at 12:25 am
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chenier Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
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Maravilha Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Hi there, any news?
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As far as I know the news is confined to Anorak’s elegant summary of Clarence’s career options.
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Yes indeed.
…..and only a couple of minutes of 14th July left……
I’ve been sooooooo disappointed…….
Kept my head though….
Good night everyone.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:22 am
June,
I’m sure things will be fine and you can return the favour now and look after him. I was just asking as my brother works with a Bob Johnson( software engineer) and his wife is June.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
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JuneJohnson
June sorry to hear about your husband’s dilemma.
Hope things will be okay and you won’t need to run around after him too much.
Are you in Scotland?
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Thankyou Ciara
well apart from walking the dogs, things should be ok…he was running round after me earlier in the year. We live in Essex
July 14th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
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Maravilha Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Hi there, any news?
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As far as I know the news is confined to Anorak’s elegant summary of Clarence’s career options.
Richard Desmond apparently quite genuinely doesn’t give a shit, which presumably accounts for the Guardian’s obsession with him.
It must put the fear of God into PR people too…
July 14th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I do hope M&A will pardon my little “intervention” …
M and A
Thats fine Chatelaine, I just left it as marginally less boring than ‘the PJ are shelving the case’ which is what we usually get
*****
On that note, I bid you et al a good night.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Chenier
Think we are going to need rather a lot of it, shall hunt out some borage tomorrow, we have the usual debate whether to peel the cucumber…..
July 14th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
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JuneJohnson Says:
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Four weeks of physio, particularly with the weather like this, is not a happy prospect. But I am glad that the Pimms assisted, at any rate…